snuff

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I recklect he called me aside that afternoon, assuming a solamon and misterus hare, "Charles," said he, "ARE YOU UP TO SNUFF?"

From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Now WINDING-SHEETS he sometimes made,   But this was not enough, For finding it a poorish trade,   He also dealt in SNUFF.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James

Kippen's and Tillich's SNUFF, Bibles and Teſtaments, all Sorts of Stationary, &c. &c. &c.

From The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Various